SABATTUS – A “hasty” move by selectmen last week resulted in complaints on the weight-limit posting on Ball Park Road.
Selectmen agreed Tuesday to reassess their decision to place a 30,000-pound weight limit on the road after two of the road’s residents objected.
Selectman William Luce was the lone selectmen last week who, although he seconded the initial motion to post the road, voted against the posting, announcing later that “the decision to do that was hasty.”
To undo a motion, a selectman who voted in favor of it has to ask the board to revisit the matter with the discovery of new material. Mark Duquette did exactly that. There was a follow-up explanation by Selectman Guy Desjardins, who was not present for last week’s vote.
“We do not have a town traffic ordinance,” Desjardins said. “I don’t know how any officer could enforce that posting. But there is a process that has to be followed.”
As of Monday morning, the road was posted with an orange weight-limit sign, a sign that Desjardins said is not the proper form of posting. He said the orange signs are reserved primarily for frost season, and that permanent postings must be white with black writing.
“When I heard about the posting the next day I was beyond angry,” said Norm Guimont, a Ball Park Road resident. “This all happened because two residents of this road do not like seeing dump trucks going by their house. To move and vote on this in one night was unfair.”
To help remedy the issue, selectmen involved in the initial vote agreed to revote and to remove the posting until future testing. “It was one error,” Selectman Gino Camardese said. “We are no experts on the matter.”
As for the orange signs, Road Commissioner James Wood said they would be removed within minutes of the meeting’s adjournment.
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